A new YouTube video takes Gaylord Entertainment Co. to task for shutting down the Opryland theme park and letting it be replaced with Opry Mills mall, full of stores that can be found “anywhere in the country.” People interviewed in the 90-second clip say Gaylord should shut down the mall and bring the park back, […]

For the past couple of months, Gaylord Entertainment Co. has been talking regularly to Mayor Karl Dean’s administration. The subject: Gaylord’s concerns about a large, publicly financed Marriott hotel being built next to the convention center Dean wants to build. The company has been trying to limit the size of the hotel, which it sees […]

I had to interview Mayor Karl Dean by email Thursday for my story about the state of Nashville’s tourism/hospitality industry as he pushes for a new convention center and hotel. While I prefer to interview sources on the phone so I can adjust to unexpected remarks, ask follow-up questions, etc., the written format does allow […]